# rrom
## Romani
### Alternative forms

* rom
* řom (Pan-Vlax)

### Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀟𑁄𑀁𑀩 (ḍoṃba), from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, “Dom”), ultimately from a substrate language such as Dravidian or Munda.
For more information, see English Roma.
Assamese ডোম (düm), Bengali ডম (ḍom), Hindustani ڈوم / डोम (ḍom), Marathi डोम (ḍom), Marwari डूम (ḍūm), Nepali डुम (ḍum), Odia ଡମ (ḍama), Punjabi ਡੂਮ / ڈوم (ḍūm), Sindhi ڏۇمُ (ḍ̠ūmu).

### Noun

rrom m anim (accusative rromes, nominative plural rroma, accusative plural rromen)
* Romani man
    Coordinate terms: (Romani woman) rromni, (Romani boy) ćhavo, (Romani girl) ćhaj
    Coordinate term: (gadje (non-Romani) man) gaʒo
* husband
    Coordinate term: rromni

#### Declension

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#### Derived terms

* rromano
* rromni

#### Descendants

* Angloromani: rom
* → Bulgarian: ром (rom)
* → Czech: Rom
* → Dutch: Rom
* → English: Rom
* → French: Rom
* → German: Rom
* → Greek: Ρομ (Rom)
* → Polish: Rom
* → Portuguese: rom
* → Romanian: rom
* → Serbo-Croatian: Róm
* → Slovak: Róm
* → Swedish: rom
* → Ukrainian: ром (rom)

### References

* 1 2 3 4 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ḍōmba”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 314
* 1 2 3 4 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “řom”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 250b
* ↑ “romani”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
* ↑ Milena Hübschmannova (2003 February) “Rom / Ḍom”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎, Prague, archived from the original on 19 August 2021
* 1 2 Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
* 1 2 Alinčová, Milena, Hübschmannová, Milena (2002 September) “Rom / Romni”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎, Prague, archived from the original on 25 August 2021
* ↑ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o Rrom I, -es m. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 314a
* 1 2 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 154b
* ↑ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o rrom II, -es m. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 314a